Are You Happy?

What does it mean to be happy? If you are “content”, are you happy? Do you have to be joyful or exuberant to be happy? How do you understand the word “happy”?

And what brings you to that feeling?

I was having this conversation with an old friend the other day and we debated the meaning of the word “content”. Is being content the same thing as being happy? I’ve always been a fairly contented person but until I stopped to think about it I believed that somehow “content” ranked lower on the happiness scale than “happy” did.

You know I’ve written a book called The Happy Place but that doesn’t make me an expert on this – far from it. And since my son died, I’ve had to re-think this topic – a lot. It’s very hard to feel happy in the year following a sudden loss like this.

It’s hot easy for me to get back to happy right now but “content” I can sometimes manage. I feel content…

About The Author

LoriI have always loved writing and community building. I’ve written a book about healing and happiness, The Happy Place, as well as a Community Building book, Sounding the Drum: Community Building in the Digital Age,both available at any Amazon store. I’ve been through life changes that I thought were the end of my world, but I’m still here. You never know what will happen next. Isn’t that what makes life interesting?